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Re: [OM] the war is over, they won

Subject: Re: [OM] the war is over, they won
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:12:24 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     I've noticed that on this Win7 machine, which has a very limited extended 
character set.  With WinXP on these Dell Inspiron 6000 laptops you have the 
entire set that goes back to Win95.  I make up for that by having a Word 
document that has the entire set, from which I copy and paste.

>
>>      I'm one of the few people who still uses diacritical marks, such 
>>as with coöperate, reënter, rôle, and other words with Olde English origins.
>
>
>Well, that explains why you use old computers. Modern computers and
>operating systems (such as those made since 1998) don't do those
>marks.
>

Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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